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Rick Rogers, a senior majoring In philosophy, gets a little afternoon shuteye Wednesday on the Hancock Foundation lawn.
Health center loses director after ten years
He led AIDS committee, started awareness class
By Petula Dvorak
Staff Writer
The executive director of the Student Health and Counseling Center, Allan Ebbin, has returned to private practice after 10 years at the university.
Ebbin, who was also an associate professor of pediatrics, formed several health information organizations on campus and directed the health center to national prominence, said James Dennis, vice president of student affairs.
Ebbin played a key role in outreach programs to educate students on health issues and served as chairman of the AIDS awareness task force for the last four years.
The new AIDS awareness class, introduced this semester, was started by the committee under Ebbin's supervision.
Ebbin was instrumental in forming the Student Health Advisory Committee, a group of students who assist the director, giving him input and advice on health center issues.
A national search for a qualified permanent director is underway, Dennis said.
Ronald Mandel, former associate medical director and supervisor of the center's medical staff, is now acting director.
"Our immediate goal is to keep our performance at least up to the level that Dr. Ebbin maintained while he was here and provide the best possible care for the patients," Mandel said.
Dennis said he doesn't anticipate a long wait for a new director. Mandel, however, said the last search took 18 months.
(See Ebbin, page 27)
Brain research team to begin 10-year work
In Brief_____________________________
Navy sights gunner as probable cause for USS Iowa blast
WASHINGTON — The Navy has concluded that the explosion aboard the USS Iowa that killed 47 sailors in April was “probably caused by” gunner’s mate Clayton Hartwig, who died in the blast, congressional sources said Wednesday.
The sources, who were briefed by Pentagon officials and who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the Navy investigation into the April 19 explosion in the battleship’s second gun turret found foreign material in the immediate area of the blast.
The sources declined to specify the nature of the material.
Navy investigators had been examining the possibility that suicide or murder was involved in the explosion which occurred during exercises off Puerto Rico, according to earlier reports.
The sources said “an unlawful and illegal act” by Hartwig, which they declined to specify, was pinpointed as the probable cause of the blast.
The explosion occured as the No. 2 gun, the middle gun of three in the turret, was being loaded for firing practice.
The guns and turret were designed in the late 1930s and use powder and shells manufactured more than 40 years ago in World War II. There has been some speculation that the powder could have become unstable.
WORLD: Columbia asks U.S. to reduce drug use
BOGOTA, Colombia — Communications Minister Carlos Lemos said Wednesday his nation cannot fight narcotics traffickers unless the United States, the world's biggest cocaine consumer, curbs its drug appetite.
The Defense Ministry meanwhile said it has seized 880 properties, and nearly as many vehicles and aircraft during this 2 1/2-week-old war on narcotics dealers. Emergency laws have allowed it to confiscate property bought with proceeds from drug trafficking.
In a speech in Washington, President George Bush proposed increasing military and law enforcement aid for Colombia,
Bolivia and Peru, to $261.2 million next year.
From the Associated Press
Index______________________________
Viewpoint...................... 4
Komlx.......................... 6
Security Roundup............... 6
Arts & Entertainment......... 13
Sports....................... 40
50 researchers hope to unlock mysteries of brain, nervous system
By Bill Swindell
Staff Writer
Spurred by a $10 million federal grant, a university team has launched a decade of brain research that could unlock mysteries in linguistics and computer science.
The Neural, Informational and Behavioral Sciences team, known by the acronym NIBS, will operate out of the new
By Anita Vogel
Staff Writer
Following an expansion of the university's Law Center, the number of law school applications has jumped 25 percent from last year, said Robert Saltzman, associate dean of law school admissions.
Last year, the school received 2,754 applications. However, 1989 brought in just under 3,500, accounting for the
Hedco Neurosciences Building. The project was developed within the past seven years as part of a national program on brain research.
"We hope to find out a lot about how brain mechanisms store memory," said Richard Thompson, a university neuroscientist and NIBS team member. "Hopefully we'll find the long-term answers within the gene research."
Congress designated a 10-year period starting this year as the "Decade of the Brain," designated to study disorders of the central nervous system.
Thompson said the proclamation
25 percent increase and a 67 percent increase in the last three years.
"A combination of the reputation of the law school itself as well as a national interest in the subject of law" accounted for the increase, Saltzman said. "Another contributing factor is the exceptional quality of the faculty."
Earlier this year, a journal of higher education listed a survey that ranked the school sixth nationally in terms of
should give the program even more additional funding from the $1 million annual budget.
Construction of the five-story neurosciences building, another plus ter the research team, received $18 million in private funds.
However, the team has yet to move into the building, Thompson said.
The research project will give the university a broad, comprehensive view of the neurosciences, he said.
"Certainly in some areas of the program we rate very good" compared to (See Research, page 28)
educational productivity stemming from faculty activities, Saltzman said.
The school is also consistently ranked in the top 10 to 15 percent among the nation's law schools, he said.
Last year, USC had the highest rate of California Bar exam passage, beating out UCLA, Stanford, and the Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley.
(See Law School, page 26)
An expanding school
Applications to Law Center increase by 25 percent